Some certainly got paid and used the money to go home. But I will eat my fucking hat if there aren’t a significant number who never got the promised compensation (miscarriage, stillbirth, expensive complications this fuckwit here had to shell out for and got butthurt about, changing their minds, mouthing off) and were…

Me, reading the headline: I’ll bet this dick thought he was doing a service, putting babies in good Christian homes.

How are ANY of those cops still with the police force???

Nope. As a matter of fact, things went totally off the rails after her last overdose/withdrawal and my dad just filed for divorce. They’ve been married for almost 40 years, and he’s *just* now realizing what’s been up with her this whole time. All of us kids went through that in our early adulthood, but our dad’s…

My mom became addicted when I was 5. The crazy thing is, I didn’t know she was addicted until my late 20s. She was always able to get enough from legit suppliers (health care system), so never had to turn to other sources. Which just meant she was at the clinic/hospital all the time. As kids, we all just thought she…

The shelter. of. my. silence. !!!!!!

Makes sense! And FWIW, it sounds to me like you’re doing just fine. People are messy and weird and we’re all going to make missteps, especially in the beginning when we don’t know much about the other person. I mean, not even necessarily “missteps,” but just misses in general. We don’t always connect “right,” and…

Oh, there’s tons of emotional labor to go around when it comes to this stuff, and I know guys experience it too. I wasn’t trying to generalize my experience, just talk about *my* experience. For me, at that moment, I wasn’t interested in dating anyone, at all, and I’m not even sure his existence as an individual had…

Yeah, I mean, you can avoid seeming like a creep by avoiding being a creep, which I’m pretty sure you do. Avoid it, that is. :) But the give vs. ask for the number thing is going to vary person to person, as you can see in this comment thread. I like what Bekaby’s fiancee did - explain what he was doing at the time -…

that’s a great way to do it!

Oh, I definitely appreciated the thought behind it!

When my (now) husband asked me out for the first time, he asked if he could give me his phone number. Which I thought was super weird - dude, you’re the one interested in me, why would I do all the work? I rejected him flat-out. No, thanks. Not interested. He looked so stricken that I felt terrible (why do we always…

This happened to my bestie. The place we worked for was a total shit show, but the pregnancy was actually fine. She got a standard leave - also took short term disability - and there wasn’t any harassment or retaliation or punishment or anything like that. Just the standard bullshit, like trying to find a fucking…

jesus fucking christ.

oh my god that mustache.

As horrifying as all that is, I have absolutely no trouble believing it. I’m so sorry our shit is so fucked, and that you got such a fucking huge helping of it. Keep hanging in there, friend. <3

damn girl, you ruthless 

hard core

Short version: I ghosted her ass.

That haircut is unacceptable.